Ambushed by unexpected emotion

The spooky climax to Benny Hill's "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)" - "Ernie was only 52*/He didn't wanna die" [...] "was that the trees-a-rustlin'? Or the hinges of the gate?/Or Ernie's ghostly gold-tops a-rattlin' in their crate?" - always jerked chilly tears from me as a toddler (it's the angel's chorus, the strings and the way Benny phrases 'of the gate'). Utterly astounded and not a little embarrassed to find myself choked seeing the video again on TOTP2 recently.

(Nick - do we have 52 yet?)

Also, driving with a friend recently and both of us singing along to "I Promise" and me feeling sad that we weren't dating.

A few months ago I was in the pub with Emma, and we were in a dodgy patch. I had a cold, and the jukebox was too loud, and I had a couple of brown ales inside me, and Emma was in a complete black mood when everything is a negative. I couldn't hear her properly because my ears were blocked up 'cos of my cold and because of the music, so I just sat there and enjoyed the sofa and the beer, while Emma got more and more wound up because I wasn't saying anything...

Anyway, without going too deeply into why she was down or why we were in a bad patch, she had a go at me because we "had nothing to talk about" and how our whole relationship was pointless etcetera, etcetera, and this tune was int eh background, too loud, and I couldn't filter her voice from the tune from the chit-chat of the pub 'cos of my sinuses, and the singer was talking about how hard he'd tried to keep this girl, or something, and how it was hard, and how she should look at him and he was spent 'cos he'd done the best he could and it wasn't good enough and so on and so on...

And I had to get up and make us leave the pub 'cos I was starting to cry and it was really WAY too much to be doing with right there in front of people and we had an argument on the lawn and we were both in floods of tears and people were walking past and the fucking song that set me off crying was 'Against All Odds' by Phil Collins and I still quite resent Emma for making that tune make me cry and I am SHAMED FOREVER.

Not musical, but Amelie, when I saw it, didn't make me cry so much as finally let loose in sheer rage -- not at the movie, just at my situation some months ago when I was dumped. That was long overdue, though I wish I didn't have to have taken it out on my friends. :-/

Meanwhile, last night I was watching my newly acquired Snow White and the Seven Dwarves DVD -- been years since I saw the movie -- and was surprised to find myself tearing up during the whole sequence when Snow White was seen to be dead. Effective creators of mood, the late thirties Disney bunch.

These comments above about Bon Jovi are however alien to me. There won't be enough time in the world for me to think anything other than JBJ is a prick who deserves a guitar to the face.

Is there an I Love Films forum?

I get emotional.

2. I was riding in a vehicle as a passenger on New Year's Eve some years back when my parents and I decided to go through the neighborhood we lived in, looking at the Christmas lights that were still on the houses. I decided to listen to something while I was looking out, so I took out my Walkman and played what was in it -- which happened to be cued up to The Cure's "A Forest". Seeing the utter and complete darkness of the night sky illuminated by all these little glittery holiday lights to the soundtrack of this song was a truly magical moment and I will remember that moment for the rest of my life. The song even somehow managed to make those lights seem a little bit spooky and atmospheric-looking.

I got weepy the first time I heard that QUITE embarassing cuz they suck

That is because they are stinky, horrid and mean. And JBJ himself just looks like he deserves beatings. SMUGFUCKERY BASTARD!

However, I give credit for Tico Torres because he used to play briefly in this slightly mimsy and fun enough New Jersey psych-pop band back in the late sixties or something -- forget the name of the band, got the reissue on ArfArf Records. I like to imagine him as the one guy who ended up caught up in the band years later and thought, "Ah, fuck it, it's a living," and he just stays at home most nights and shakes his head with a laugh.

haha

Though they were probably right that the singer needed to be hotter and they needed some of that crazy mouth-tube-guitar action. Both "It's My Life" and "Livin' On A Prayer" benefit from such silliness.

I can't believe they toured WITH the Goo Goo Dolls. How much hair-in-the-eyes sexy-boy-rasp can the human ear take...

here's all the hair-in-the-eyes sexy-boy-rasp you need
http://www.mellencamp.com/images/1985/jmfield.JPG

Squeeze's "Up The Junction" (one of my all-time top 20 songs anyway) made me burst into tears outside Mile End station one evening a year or so ago. Just the horribleness of the narrator's situation, the hopelessness in the lines about drinking, the stultifying, truly pathetic inevitableness of it all, got the better of me.

Occasionally I will cry during WNBA games on television.

"Say it Isn't So" by Hall and Oates used to make me cry. That song vividly marked a time of young teen rejection.

I just totally blubbed at the end of The Simpsons - it was "And Maggie Makes Three" when Homer covers the sign at work which says "Don't forget you're here forever" with pix of Maggie, so it reads "Do it for her". I must've seen it half a dozen times, and, frankly, this time I was piss bored. And then I started blubbing like a girl, wtf?!

XP I'm sorry to hear this Jonathan. Best wishes to you

My sympathies, Jonathan.

Not quite tears, but certainly chills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3y9llDXuM

https://steidl.de/Books/Gas-Stop-0317385059.html

Gas Stop by David Freund

This is a four-volume set of books featuring photos of gas stations made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and I am moved to tears just about every time I look through it.

A couple of years ago my (now 8-year-old) child heard Maroon 5's "Memories" somewhere, and liked it, and asked to play it a lot. I don't like Maroon 5 or this song (though I do like Pachelbel's canon). My child added it to one of his playlists. Some time passed, and when it popped up on his playlist again he said he couldn't listen to it because it reminded him of one of our cats who had died in the interim. So now when I hear this song that I really don't like in the grocery store or wherever, it makes me well up a little.

I found out in my facebook feed that a guy who went to the same law school as me (ten years after me, didn't know him) died of cancer. He was given his diploma early. His girlfriend, a magazine writer, made a wedding for them a few weeks before he died (I'm p sure when she knew he was dying). This story is turning me into a weepy mess. I don't think I've cried at anything for at least months.

https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/ashley-reese-and-rob-stengel-wedding

sorry, she did know he was dying, it says that

delighted to say that the effect documented nearly twenty-three years at start of thread still operates: i remain (mildly) dirtbag-pilled wheatus-ambush-wise 😭😭😭

enough time elapsed to make it unexpected again

Some chat about the Beautiful South on another thread led me to put on "A Little Time". It's a slightly corny AOR duet from the early 90s that I remember from a Now comp I used to have, about a couple going through the five stages of grief over their doomed relationship.

Before the end of the song I admit I was wiping away tears

Cafe Del Mar, Monday night, first ever visit, Louis Armstrong: What A Wonderful World as the sun set, reader I blubbed.

Why does the song Happy Talk always get me? It's not a sad song. Is it the "You've got to gave a dream" sentiment? I dunno, it low key kills me

lol I still only know it from the Dizzee Rascal song, but that one always hit unexpectedly hard.